I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams.... Man...is above all the plaything of his memory.

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No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

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Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

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There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

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